Academy

The story instinct is, most basically, the “and then” principle. He survives a plane crash. And then? And then what after that?

How do we keep doing this—making art? A Master Class on The Long Run.

This generative lecture will contain gorgeous maps, texts, and writing prompts to help us consider the cartographic in our writing as we zoom through macro and miniature worlds; consider the anachronous simultaneity of history, memory, the present, and the future as we walk the world as psycho-geographers, awakened to wonder.

In this Master Class we will examine different uses of structure in nonfiction (Janet Malcolm, John Berger, Claudia Rankine) and fiction (William Maxwell, Amy Hempel, Sheila Heti).

In this Master Class, we will explore ghost stories, and together do a close reading of Jamel Brinkley's story "The Let-Out."